More Panther Details?

voice recognition log-ins....
Unless i can power up my PowerMac with voice recognition, this is practically useless....

Yeah, that's it.
Now when I get home all I need to do is shout "Macs Up!!!"
Then every Mac in my place will be powered up. :D

There are only 3 things that they say which I really want:
Themes, Speed, and Safari.

The other things are nice, but I don't NEED them, at least right now.

Originally posted by macdong
Yeah, that's it.
Now when I get home all I need to do is shout "Macs Up!!!"
Then every Mac in my place will be powered up. :D

That alone would make Panther worth $129. :D

I think that voice recognition logins would improve security, but what if you are loggin in remotely and the machine you're logging in from does not have a microphone?

Originally posted by Freg3000
Themes

I assume you mean Apple approved themes correct? I'd like OS X more if they let you customize it yourself to your heart's content, without the need to select individual themes. That way every GUI would be different, an individual fingerprint of the style and flair of every Mac user.

Originally posted by macdong
Yeah, that's it.
Now when I get home all I need to do is shout "Macs Up!!!"
Then every Mac in my place will be powered up. :D

And meanwhile, all your Windows machines will try to join in, but since they're all trying to log onto the network at exactly the same time, they'll suffer an identity crisis and give themselves viruses and crash. Oh wait, Windows IS a virus. :D

Yeah I know that didn't make too much sense...

I hope the Themes part is correct :)

i'd actually be glad if the biometric plugins came back... voice recognition, then someone would make thumb and iris scanners that the OS recognized for this purpose... combine this with multiple GUI login, and wow :) very nice high-security system for sensitive areas...

the voice plugin alone is really not that useful tho...

pnw

Originally posted by paulwhannel
i'd actually be glad if the biometric plugins came back... voice recognition, then someone would make thumb and iris scanners that the OS recognized for this purpose... combine this with multiple GUI login, and wow :) very nice high-security system for sensitive areas...

the voice plugin alone is really not that useful tho...

pnw

Hmm I'm sure I've seen OSX finger print login devices.

I hope they bring far far more customizeability. Whoa that's a mouth full. Any how, being able to customize the look and feel of your system is why I originally really got into the mac back in the System 7 days. Back then it meant being able to have icons and move files around but since then things haven't really improved. System 9 had far more features when it came to the user inteface then OSX so it's time for OSX to make OS9 look like a featureless door knob in my oppinion. Oh!, also speed can never hurt.:)

Finally for me as on a two user system having the ability to switch users without ending a task is priceless. XP has this it's time OSX caught up. Also something that XP has is the ability to sort your music folder using the ID3 tag information. Why the hell don't we have that? Any way definitely the user switch ability. I hate it when I have a process running in the background not up on the screen and my fiancé comes in takes a look at the screen and doesn't see anything up so assumes it's not in use then logsout to her system. There goes all that work. Oh, well I guess. Thankfully it sounds like that pain is over with.

Originally posted by macdong
voice recognition log-ins....
Unless i can power up my PowerMac with voice recognition, this is practically useless....

how lazy are you?